re: Ukraine eyes an offensive around Bakhmut, as Russian momentum stalls

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Yet Russia still can’t take the city. Russias big winter offensive petered out into nothing. Now they are pulling T55 tanks out of storage.

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Whoah now, you mean Russians are using old equipment, I heard we were the ones giving the ukes old junk???????

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You’re incorrectly assuming what sources I’ve used to keep an eye on whats going on daily since the start.

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No he's not, he is reading what you are posting and its propaganda to make US citizens feel good about being raped financially for something that does not concern us.

It’s been a virtual stale mate since November, when the weather for maneuver warfare switched to the muddy season.

Russia started a front wide offensive in January and has moved the front in some locations but has lost a lot of equipment and men in doing so. For its part Ukraine has lost a lot as well.

From various reports, the Russian attacks have slowed. Does this mean they are switching to defense? Pausing to rest/regroup/re-supply? Not sure, we will need ti wait and see

Does Ukraine move from defense to offense? If so when? When to western equipment get in country and in position?

Onus is on Ukraine. Russia just needs to hold the line while Ukraine needs to expel Russia in order to get their territory back. And it’s easier to defend than attack.

Yes he is, considering i dont use any domestic news sources.

and what exactly have i typed that is propaganda?

That ukraine is staging for a counter offensive, but i dont know how effective it will be? Wow! What amazing propaganda im listening to… oops, thats from Al Jazeera using quotes from Prighozin.

Frankly not sure how much more un-american of a source i can find.

AL-Jazeera Article

There is some political infighting going on the Russian side, which is why i said no idea how serious this counter offensive will be. Could be getting exaggerated by Prigohzin for political purposes. Which is why i said we will have a clearer picture once Rasputitsa clears up.

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Yet Russia still can’t take the city. Russias big winter offensive petered out into nothing. Now they are pulling T55 tanks out of storage.

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I'll know something is up if we start seeing T34's called up.

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Lol. Ok. Been hearing this for a year.

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It was a very long two weeks.

Most thought that Russia would have a quick cake walk, but looking at Ukraine's Western reworked military, its size and equipment built up since 2014 it was far more capable than most experts presumed.

Putin's boys suffered from a combination of arrogance and incompetence. They sent a thousand of the cream of their armor in to assault Kiev in three columns, but the ground was too soft and they all moved to the same road. That created a 35 mile long traffic jam that lasted for a month all of the time under fire.

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Russias army turned out to be a hollowed out shell of what it was presented to be.

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So….essentially par for the course for the state of the Russian armed forces at the outset of every war Russia has fought in its existence.

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Understandable. But believing anything Russia claims would be equally dumb.

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A crowd laughed at Russia's top diplomat when he said the Ukraine war "was launched against us." That was an audience in India which is sympathetic to Russia.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-diplomat-said-ukraine-war-launched-against-us-crowd-laughs-2023-3?op=1